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Manchester United are signing Ivan Provedel to supply competitors for Andre Onana subsequent season.
The Cameroonian goalkeeper has had a rollercoaster of a season to say the least since relocating from Milan to Manchester final summer time.
The Champions League group stage noticed the keeper at his worst with quite a few excessive profile blunders which actually set his group again, most notably letting in two tender free kicks in Istanbul which meant the Crimson Devils misplaced a two objective lead twice within the match and needed to accept a expensive 3-3 draw.
Nevertheless, in some regards, Onana has additionally had an awesome season as he has produced many tremendous saves and was capable of crucially assist his aspect win the FA Cup semi-final shootout towards Coventry Metropolis.
The match on Saturday towards Burnley was a basic instance of Onana’s season, the place he produced quite a few tremendous stops solely to concede a careless penalty late on, which the Clarets transformed to safe a 1-1 draw.
Regardless of these points, the previous Ajax keeper has been a mainstay within the group enjoying 46 occasions this season with back-up keeper Altay Bayindir solely suiting up for the aspect as soon as – in an FA Cup ties versus Newport County when Onana was on the African Cup of Nations.
Consequently, studies have emerged that the Turkish keeper is fed up with sitting on the bench and is on the lookout for a transfer after lower than a yr on the membership. In response, Fichajes report that United may look to Lazio’s Ivan Provedel as a possible alternative.
The Spanish outlet states that Onana has not supplied “the anticipated efficiency at first of this season, which has fuelled the rumours in regards to the signing of a brand new goalkeeper.”
This has led them to take a look at Serie A and specifically Lazio, as Provedel is alleged to have “given nice particular person performances that haven’t gone unnoticed by Manchester United who based on the newest info could be prepared to make an financial effort to signal the participant and thus accompany Onana throughout 2024/2025.”
Nevertheless, it’s made clear, even when solely initially, Provedel wouldn’t be the primary keeper: “Manchester United would wager on Provedel to lift the aggressive stage of its goalkeepers, with Onana being chosen to compete for the beginning place.”
The Dutch stopper himself has performed 38 occasions this season and, impressively, has solely conceded 31 targets in 28 Serie A video games.
The 30-year-old Italian might be most well-known for his final minute heroics final September when he scored a late equaliser versus Atletico Madrid and have become solely the second goalkeeper to attain from open play in Champions League historical past.
It’s uncertain whether or not the Italian would surrender common first-team soccer to take a seat on United’s bench however he may even see a transfer to such a membership as too huge to show down.
Furthermore, within the probably case the membership may have a brand new supervisor in the summertime, the brand new man in cost will not be so wedded to the concept of Onana enjoying each sport he’s out there for.
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